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DOCUMENT Citation Only Audrey Horning.

This is an abstract from the "Activating Heritage: Encouraging Substantive Practices for a Just Future" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Building on literature from peace and conflict studies as well as social justice movements, I consider the role and responsibilities of archaeologists as we grapple not only with our positionality in the present, including our roles as citizens and scholars, but the manner in which we mobilize the past in aid of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Leland Gilsen.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Maria-Louise Sidoroff.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us using the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Randy Ledford. David Wescott.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us using the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Catherine Jones. Shannon Freire.

The excavation, reburial, and permanent curation of human remains from historic cemeteries is inherently linked to complexities of Western paternalism, medical consent, nationality, traditional cultural practice, and a too-common absence of stakeholder engagement, among other pressing concerns. These important and fundamental considerations are often ignored or glossed over in both archaeological project planning and in publications utilizing these remains. The ideal of scientific objectivity...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Kriebel.

This is an abstract from the "Reckoning with Legacy Exhibits, Data, and Collections" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The WS Ranch Site (800-1300 CE) is an Upper Mogollon archaeological site near Alma, New Mexico excavated by a field school program at the University of Texas, Austin from 1977-1993. The collection remained unprocessed and unpublished in its original field bags at the university until 2018 when the Denver Museum of Nature & Science...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Edward B. Jelks.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Caylee N Dzurka.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Deviations: Archaeologies of Sexuality Beyond the Heteronormative", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Given that queer theory was born out of queer activism, queer archaeologists have often challenged heteronormative biases in the discipline because of how they reinforce racist, homophobic, and transphobic opinions in the contemporary world. However, few studies have tackled the struggles of living queer...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alejandra Gutierrez Lara.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. I use an autoethnographic and feminist perspective to reflect on how the field practice of preventive archaeology has been developing in Colombia. I draw on experiences from my own work to question the naturalization of inequalities and violence present in everyday interactions during the implementation of development projects, involving different actors...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chelsea Blackmore.

We volunteer and engage with the public because we believe that history matters; that visibility of the everyday, of peoples and pasts marginalized and made invisible should be central to what we do. We can use our work, pre- and post-contact, as a means for public engagement and to dismantle political discussions rooted in ahistorical notions of human behavior and morality. But in serving the public interest, how do we also serve our membership, both in protecting their rights as human beings...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Ashley.

This is an abstract from the "Transformations in Professional Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the past three decades, archaeology has experienced a paradigm shift with the integration of digital recording and publishing methodologies. This “paper” critically examines whether, in our pursuit of technological advancements, we have remained true to the core principles of archaeological ethics. Are we on the brink of a digital dark...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maureen Meyers. Amber VanDerwarker.

This is an abstract from the "Presidential Session: What Is at Stake? The Impacts of Inequity and Harassment on the Practice of Archaeology" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Sexual harassment has long been rampant in the discipline of archaeology, and until recently, our collective understanding of its pervasiveness and effects has been largely anecdotal. Recent surveys on the topic aimed at the memberships of the Southeastern Archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Shepard.

This is an abstract from the "Four Decades of NAGPRA, Part 1: Accomplishments and Challenges" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Intentional and thorough NAGPRA efforts illustrate the prevalence of archaeological material removed from the same sites, and even from the same excavation events, that is now scattered among institutions. Provenance research and communicating with state archaeological surveys or organizations can reveal collecting and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph Lindler.

This is an abstract from the "Reckoning with Legacy Exhibits, Data, and Collections" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Duty of Care provisions of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) took effect on January 12, 2024 (43 CFR 10.1(d)), eliciting immediate response across archaeology sectors. Media coverage of exhibit closures at high-profile institutions brought public attention to the regulatory revision and caused...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eve Dewan.

Located within a city park in Providence, Rhode Island, the Roger Williams Park Museum of Natural History has been a popular scientific and cultural institution since it was founded in the late nineteenth century. Only about 1% of the Museum’s quarter million pieces are currently on display. Included in this vast collection are approximately 25,000 archaeological and ethnographic objects from around the world, a number that was higher prior to the passage of NAGPRA in 1990. Since this pivotal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Laura Phillips.

As the neutral repository appointed by the court, the Burke Museum has played a unique and often frustrating role as temporary caretaker of the Ancient One/Kennewick Man. Decisions on overall curation, research and access resided with the US Army Corps of Engineers, yet the Burke provided the environment, security, and safety. Museum standards of access and care are not straightforward, and staff tried to balance ideas of neutrality and bioethics with real people and their needs. The Ancient One...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen A. Hammack.

This paper will address historical research and the delineation of several 19th and 20th century historic cemeteries in the State of Georgia in the Southeastern United States. It will also address the ethical aspects of these kinds of projects, and suggest avenues for working together with clients, employers, government agencies, and concerned families in order to successfully complete potentially problematic cemetery and graveyard projects.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Delaney McNulty.

This is an abstract from the "Four Decades of NAGPRA, Part 1: Accomplishments and Challenges" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This submission explores the right to destroy cultural property, which is a distinctive aspect of Native American cultural sovereignty embedded in the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). The right to destroy is an understudied but recognized property right; when property becomes distinguished as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kevin Nolan. Michael Shott. Eric Olson. Sidney Travis.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Privately held collections are an endangered part of the archaeological record that the SAA’s "Principles of Archaeological Ethics" directs us preserve. The Central Ohio Archaeological Digitization Survey (COADS) is undertaking the documentation of dozens of private collections in central Ohio. By September 2018 it recorded over 15,000 artifacts and added over...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katharine Ellenberger. Lorna-Jane Richardson.

The only way to know if archaeological outreach and community engagement is working is to ask. We need to ask the right questions, to the right people, and incorporate that feedback into our work. Yet evaluation is a fraught pursuit. When directing our projects directly at, and working with, the public, our projects are ever more embedded in the politics of cultural heritage and reverberate throughout the communities where we work. Archaeologists and heritage workers have been struggling with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Basil Stewart.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study examines the care of the dead in museums at a newly imagined intersection of death work and curation. Recent concerns surrounding the ethics of human remains collections have resulted in many museums reevaluating their policies on access, display, and research of human remains and burial objects. However, these often reactionary projects are...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Minnie Moore Willson.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Allyson Blanck.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. There are many things one expects to find on a field site: a plethora of trowels, interns and students working away— but disability and medical equipment are not among them. Archaeology often shies away from including and accommodating disabled voices. This fear has created an environment in which those with disabilities are unsure if they will be welcomed or...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tanya Peres.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1949, the Department of Anthropology was formed by Hale G. Smith who hired Charles Fairbanks in 1954. The original faculty members (Smith, Fairbanks, and John Griffin) were products of the University of Chicago Department of Anthropology Field School and closely associated with the development of academic and scientific archaeology in the United...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelley Scudder-Temple. Cynthia Wirth. Michael Pateman.

During the past several decades salvage operators, government sanctioned and non-sanctioned, have destroyed countless archaeological sites through the pillaging of shipwrecks in search of sunken treasure throughout The Bahamas. Recently the government of The Bahamas passed the Underwater Heritage Shipwreck Act which allows for a limited number of licensed excavations to be conducted by salvage companies under the supervision of appointed archaeologists and government officials. Has the...